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RegistrarStats.com to shut down next month

Donuts has announced that it is shutting down RegistrarStats.com on February 19, 2018. The company acquired the site as part of its acquisition of Rightside last year.

The company says it is shutting down the service “due to dwindling interest and usage in the website service over the past several years.” Paying customers will receive a pro-rata refund of any subscription payments that extended beyond February 19.

RegistrarStats was once a popular site for gathering data on domain names such as registrar market share stats. However, the site has languished in recent years under a paid model. The copyright notice hasn’t been updated since 2013.

Can understand why it is being shut down. Crunching zones on a daily basis is quite hardware intensive. Dealing with a few legacy gTLDs can be somewhat easier than dealing with the legacy gTLDs and over a thousand new gTLDs.

Namestat.org does provide better coverage on the new gTLDs as it works from zonefiles.

Those are pretty good. However, I always liked RegistrarStats for being updated on a daily basis while RegistrarOwl always has a delay of about 3 months as they take the official data published by ICANN. Shame RegistrarStats closed down but I get their arguments…